Managing Authority (Sweden)
Administrative authorities in Sweden (Swedish: förvaltningsmyndighet ) are organizationally independent units within the state or municipal administration. They are administrative organizational units that perform public administration tasks.
It should be noted that according to the Swedish constitution on the form of government, tasks of public administration are also carried out by other institutions such as companies, associations, foundations, etc. a. can be transferred. In this case Sweden does not speak of authorities.
State administrative authorities are either central like the different central offices (swed. Ämbetsverk ) or regional like z. B. the provincial governments or locally such. B. the police offices.
Local authorities are either regional (as part of the provincial parliaments ) or local within the framework of local government .
Central State Authorities
Each state central authority (Swedish Ämbetsverk ) is assigned to a ministry. The administrative authorities are responsible for the implementation of the resolutions and ordinances passed by the Reichstag and the government, but are independent in their implementation, as they are not bound by instructions.
Each authority is headed by a Director General and a Board of Directors, chaired by the Director General. Their activities are regulated by the Administrative Act of 1986.
Important central authorities in Sweden are (selection):
- Arbetsmiljöverket
- Bergsstaten
- Bolagsverket
- Boverket
- Brottsoffermyndigheten
- Centrala Studiestödsnämnden , CSN
- Data inspections
- Ekobrottsmyndigheten
- Försvarsmakten
- Högskoleverket , HSV
- Inspections för vård och omsorg , IVO
- Integrationsverket
- Jordbruksverket
- Kronofogdemyndigheten
- Kungliga Biblioteket , KB
- Läkemedelsverket
- Lantmäteriet
- Luftfartsstyrelsen
- Länsstyrelsen
- Migration Association
- Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap
- Myndigheten för skolutveckling
- Myndigheten för Sveriges nätuniversitet
- Naturvårdsverket
- Patent och registreringsverket , PRV
- Polismyndighetes
- Post and telestyrelsen , PTS
- Riksantikvarieämbettet
- Riksgäldkontoret
- Riks revisions
- Sida
- Sjöfartsverket
- Skatteverket
- Skolverket
- Socialstyrelsen
- Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet
- Statens beredning för medicinsk utvärdering , SBU
- Statens folkhälsoinstitut
- Statens historiska museer
- Statistiska centralbyrån , SCB
- Svenska institutet , SI
- Sveriges geologiska undersökning
- Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut , SMHI
- Totalförsvarets rekryteringsmyndighet
- Trafikverket
- Transport regulations
- Tullverket
- Universitetskanslersämbetet, UKÄ
- Universitets- och Högskolerådet , UHR
- Vetenskapsrådet , Science Council
Web links
- The computer system used to manage the regional fund in Sweden (accessed March 18, 2016)
- Sweden (accessed March 18, 2016)
- The Swedish Political System (accessed March 18, 2016)